trapping you between its merciless hands clasping and crushing your writhing spine squeezing your pitiful thrashing body weighing down your entire being as it suffocates your every limb
you manage to pry your eyes open to gaze at the ceiling the dark water engulfs you, a distant bulb of light so far, so high you thrash to reach it but to your dismay, you stay in place
a shrill ringing, vibrating your skull, and stabbing into your ears you've only moved an inch just like the world you've seen and felt while sleeping
those vivid dreams where you can't see, you can't run pain clutching your pounding heart as it sinks sinks with the realization that you will never make it back to that distant, fading light
you will never see those faces again will your body sink below here, decay is this really how it ends
your chest is on fire, tingling pins and needles, seething, burning, spreading that penetrating remorse, unlike anything you've ever felt in your lifetime you think I should've done more, I could've done more.
until suddenly you feel the calmness washing over you.
Have you ever wondered what the last sound that you hear will be?
A Dream that Stuck 05/11/24
Vivid floating images while I sleep Dreams of glass shattering and snarling demons awakening furious for unknown reasons
Cupboards swinging open fine china piercing the silence glistening porcelain flung against the walls and kitchen tiles echoing and splitting into crystalline pieces
My lips curl into as smile as I stare deep into the big one's eyes I feel a calmness, the gentle humming of my breathing, undisturbed
How amusing The shadows and cloak have been lifted A version of the past reduced to dust
The stillness is golden Sunlight trickling into the scene as I stand gazing at the chaos in that apartment
